Written in the key of A minor, it has a sequence of Dm7 Am7 G/B C G/B Am7 C/G as its chord progression.
Major or minor, it moves.
Even that, by public standards, was minor; it concerned the direction in which superheated gas flowed.
"In those that were seen as minor, it was the least experienced people who were deciding whether to bring them.
I banged into the back of it, and even though the damage was minor, it was a scary moment.
As the conflict spread across many fronts, from the Hellespont to Sicily to the coast of Asia Minor, it began to seem frustratingly unwinnable.
And if Gevinson has another area of expertise, an anthropological major to her '90s minor, it is the American teenage girl.
The specific change he mentioned is fairly minor: it would ban filibusters of the "motion to proceed," which would end the routine Republican practice of blocking even debate on a bill.
But in a Yankees season characterized by injuries and more injuries without pause, it was not surprising that Jeter endured another setback himself, however minor it may turn out to be.
Mr. Polanski's sumptuous "Tess" was clouded by the scandal of his arrest in 1977 for unlawful sex with a minor; it didn't help that he was romantically linked with his young star, Ms. Kinski, who was 17 when filming began.
